House Passes Three Workers' Compensation Bills

State representatives on Monday passed three workers’ compensation bills that now move to the Senate. House Bill 1462, as introduced, was an attempt to revive the Oklahoma Option but was amended to delete any reference to the former Employee Injury Benefit Act, which the state Supreme Court ruled last year was unconstitutional. Oklahoma courts and the Workers’ Compensation Commission have ruled about 40 provisions of the act unconstitutional since its adoption in 2013. The option allowed employers to purchase their own benefit plans instead of providing coverage through the Admin...